Current time in Seville, Spain
The current local time in Seville is shown below. Seville observes CET in winter and CEST during daylight saving time.
What's the daylight saving status?
When are sunrise & sunset today?
What are the timezone facts?
What's the timezone history of Seville?
Seville lies at around 5.98 degrees west of Greenwich, making it the westernmost of Spain's major mainland cities and the most pronounced victim of the country's CET alignment. Solar noon arrives close to 13:40 in winter, more than ninety minutes after the clock reading. The mismatch shapes Andalusian evening life: dinner regularly begins at 22:00, and Seville's traditional summer outdoor culture extends well past midnight. The position also makes the city's daylight-saving shifts particularly noticeable around the equinoxes.
What are the working hours in Seville?
Seville's working day reflects the extreme Andalusian solar offset: offices typically open from 09:00 or 09:30 and close for a long midday break from 14:00 to 17:00, before reopening until 20:00 or later. The summer heat (frequently above 40 degrees in July and August) pushes much of the workforce onto a jornada intensiva schedule of 08:00 to 15:00 with no afternoon return. Holy Week and the April Feria de Abril together produce around three weeks of public festivity that dominate the spring commercial calendar.
Where is Seville?
Seville sits in the central Guadalquivir basin in southern Spain, the capital of Andalusia and the only major Spanish city served by an inland river port (commercial barges still reach the city around 80 kilometres from the Atlantic at Sanlúcar de Barrameda). The municipal population is around 685,000, with the wider metropolitan area at around 1.5 million. The Sierra Morena rises to the north, the Sierra de Grazalema to the south-east, with the flat Guadalquivir valley extending west toward the marshes of Doñana.